| | | | | | | Presented By Facebook | | | | Axios AM | | By Mike Allen · Sep 11, 2022 | | Hello, Sunday. It's the 21st anniversary of 9/11. - Smart Brevity™ count: 1,181 words ... 4½ mins. Edited by Donica Phifer.
| | | | | | 1 big thing: When "quiet quitting" isn't an option |  | | | Illustration: Sarah Grillo/Axios | | | | "Quiet quitting" — the trending term that The Wall Street Journal defines as "saying no to hustle culture; 'I'm not going to go extra'"— isn't an option for many workers, particularly women and people from under-represented communities, Axios' Hope King writes. - Why it matters: People who already have to go above and beyond just to get noticed are afraid that pulling back on extra labor could do major harm to their careers, experts tell Axios.
State of play: Immigrants, for example, may feel they have to work harder just to catch up, Courtney McCluney, organizational behavior expert and former assistant professor at Cornell University, tells Axios. - Research shows women and under-represented groups shoulder a disproportionate amount of "office housework," said Melissa Swift, U.S. transformation leader at Mercer.
🧮 By the numbers: 72 women are promoted for every 100 men, according to a a study by McKinsey, in partnership with Lean In. - That ratio widens to 68 Latina women and 58 Black women for every 100 men (of all races and ethnicities).
🔭 Zoom out: Some under-represented workers view going above and beyond as part of the responsibility for being the first, few or only. - McCluney recently left her job in academia. In the back of her mind, she worried that her own departure would make it harder for other women of color after her.
Share this story. |     | | | | | | 2. 🕶️ Consumers perk up |  | | | Today's Washington Post front page. | | | | 58 days from midterms, gas prices are down. Inflation is easing. - "After months of gloom, Americans are finally starting to feel better about the economy and more resigned to inflation," The Washington Post reports on today's front page.
- That's "good news for the White House, which has been hammered by criticism that it hasn't done enough to address inflation."
The University of Michigan's consumer-sentiment index improved throughout August, but lingered below 2021 levels. - The gains "were seen across age, education, income, region, and political affiliation, and can be attributed to the recent deceleration in inflation," Michigan said.
| | | | | | | | 3. Merchant code will help track guns |  | | | Guns for sale in El Cajon, Calif. Photo: Bing Guan/Bloomberg via Getty Images | | | | Visa will use a separate category for sales at gun shops — a major win for gun-control advocates, who say it will help track suspicious sales, AP's Ken Sweet reports. - Visa, the world's largest payment processor, said yesterday that it will adopt the International Organization for Standardization's new merchant code for gun sales, announced Friday. Until then, gun store sales were considered "general merchandise."
Why it matters: The adoption by Visa — along with Mastercard and AmEx — will put pressure on banks, the card issuers, to follow suit. It's up to banks whether to allow their cards to be used to buy guns. 🧠 Context: Gun control advocates had gained significant wins on this front in recent weeks. New York City officials and pension funds had pressured the ISO and banks to adopt this code. - Everytown for Gun Safety, co-founded by Mike Bloomberg, said Friday that the new data could "help banks and financial institutions report suspicious gun purchasing activity to law enforcement."
Keep reading. | | | | | | | | A message from Facebook | | Facebook is taking action to keep its platform safe | | |  | | | | Over 40 million people use Facebook Privacy Checkup each month. That's nearly 60 times the population of Washington, D.C. That's just one example of the work we're doing to create safer connections. Learn more about our work ahead. | | | | | | 4. 📷 1,000 words | | Photo: Gary Hershorn/Getty Images Tribute in Light — as seen from Jersey City, N.J., — is tested last week next to One World Trade Center in lower Manhattan, ahead of today's 21st anniversary of 9/11. - The installation, which can be seen for 60 miles, is presented every year, dusk to dawn, on the night of September 11th — honoring those killed, and celebrating the unbreakable spirit of New York.
How it works, per the 9/11 Memorial & Museum: "Assembled on the roof of the Battery Parking Garage south of the 9/11 Memorial, the twin beams reach up to four miles into the sky and are comprised of eighty-eight 7,000-watt xenon light bulbs positioned into two 48-foot squares, echoing the shape and orientation of the Twin Towers." | | | | | | | | 5. 🇺🇦 Zelensky sees breakthrough |  | | | Photo: Press service of the Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces of Ukraine via Reuters | | | | Above: Ukrainians prepare to transport a Russian tank captured during a Ukrainian counteroffensive that left Russia retreating. Ukrainian forces say they kept pushing north in the Kharkiv region and advancing to its south and east, Reuters reports. - President Volodymyr Zelensky hailed Ukraine's lightning advances in the northeast Kharkiv province as a potential breakthrough in the six-month-old war.
Zelensky said this winter could bring more rapid gains of territory if Kyiv can get more powerful weapons. | | | | | | | | 6. ⚖️ Trump's lawyers need lawyers | | Mar-a-Lago in Palm Beach, Fla. Photo: Marco Bello/Reuters A dark joke among lawyers: MAGA now stands for "Making Attorneys Get Attorneys," The New York Times' Michael Schmidt and Luke Broadwater report (subscription). - Lawyers who advised former President Trump as he tried to overturn the 2020 election now face "a range of repercussions across the country from federal investigators, local prosecutors, state bar associations."
At least 11 lawyers who worked for Trump have testified before the House Jan. 6 committee, The Times found. Two have been subpoenaed to appear before a federal grand jury, and two others are subjects of interest. - "17 mostly lesser-known lawyers who represented Mr. Trump in battleground states as he tried to overturn the election are facing ethics complaints, putting them at risk of being disciplined or disbarred."
| | | | | | | | 7. 🇬🇧 Feud paused | | Photo: Kirsty O'Connor/PA via AP Prince William and Kate made a surprise joint appearance with Prince Harry and Meghan yesterday for a "walkabout" to greet the huge crowd of mourners outside Windsor Castle. - Why it matters: The brothers have had little contact since 2020, when Harry bitterly quit "The Firm" and moved to the U.S. There's massive trepidation in the family about potential revelations and accusations in Harry's "literary memoir," tentatively scheduled for late this year.
👑 The Queen's state funeral will be a week from tomorrow, on Monday, Sept. 19 (6 a.m. ET), in Westminster Abbey, with leaders attending from around the world. Day by day ... Royal announcement. ⚽ British soccer leagues, including the Premier League, were castigated by fans for postponing this weekend's round of fixtures as a tribute to the Queen. Cricket and rugby played on. Read the story. | | | | | | | | 8. 🎮 Sports leagues go virtual | | A rendering of TGL's "tech-infused" golf league. Photo: TMRW Sports Group In honor of NFL Week 1 ... Sports leagues are launching new digital events to connect audiences with their brands — even if it means viewers won't always be watching the sport itself, Axios' Herb Scribner reports. - Why it matters: Leagues are seeking out younger audiences to gain more ground in our ever-more-online daily lives.
🏈 The NFL announced a new video game league, Tuesday Night Gaming featuring real-world NFL legends and YouTube gamers competing against each other in different video games every week. - The NFL is also working with EA Sports, maker of the "Madden" video game, to host competitions throughout the year. NFL players often reference "Madden" in interviews.
⛳ Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy, with the PGA Tour, are launching the TGL golf league, which will have virtual courses. The goal is to expose golf to a younger audience. (Go deeper.) 🏀 The NBA has the NBA 2K League, where NBA teams have esports teams that compete in video games. The league just wrapped up its fifth season. - The NBA also recently teamed up with the company Sorare to create a new fantasy sports league based around NFTs.
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